Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring

This is a Beta release of
Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring. This feature
is not covered by any SLA or deprecation policy and might be subject to backward-incompatible
changes.

Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring is an add-on to Kubernetes 1.10.6 or 1.11.2 (or later, if available) that provides
integrated monitoring and logging support with Stackdriver.

Features

Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring provides several features:

Single dashboard observability. Explore your Kubernetes clusters, workloads,
and services in a single Monitoring dashboard. Drill down to inspect
entities including nodes, pods, namespaces, and containers.

Clear feedback. Each Kubernetes entity is marked with an icon if
an incident is in progress, letting you find and focus on problems more quickly.

Easy installation. Click a single checkbox in the Kubernetes Engine Console
when you create your GKE clusters, or switch support from the
Stackdriver current support for GKE to the new support.

Limitations

The Beta release has the following limitations:

GKE only. This Beta release supports only
Kubernetes version 1.10.6 or 1.11.2 (or later, if available), and
it supports only Kubernetes clusters running on
Google Cloud Platform's Google Kubernetes Engine.

Opt-in only. This Beta is an opt-in feature for new and
existing Kubernetes Engine clusters. If you do not choose to opt in, you
continue to use the current Stackdriver support for
GKE, as described in the Monitoring and
Logging pages for Kubernetes.

Incompatibilities. This Beta release is incompatible with
the current Stackdriver support. For a discussion of the
incompatibilities, see
Incompatibilities.

For a list of known known issues in the Beta release, see Known
issues.

How-to Guides

Release guide: To keep up with the progression of product
capabilities and known issues during the Beta period, read this guide.